Gramsci

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"This edited collection is a beacon of critical engagementwith Gramsci's philosophical and theoretical work and hispolitical practice. This could be expected from the co-editors,each of whom has already critically appropriated and appliedGramsci's ideas, and they have now added 12 impressivecontributors to their number ... This is an importantcontribution to the urgent critical work of recovering,appropriating and recontextualizing Gramsci's concepts,methods and analyses, and, above all, 'translating'them for the current conjuncture, in which issues of politicalecology as well as political economy are ever more critical tohuman flourishing." (Antipode, 1 November 2013) "A book that has just landed on my desk is the fantasticvolume edited by Michael Ekers, Gillian Hart, Stefan Kipfer andAlex Loftus entitled Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics... My hope is that this intervention and the outstandingchapters from all the additional contributors in the book willprovoke renewed debate on space, nature, and politics in and beyondGramsci!" (Adam Morton, adamdavidmorton.com, 13November 2012) 'From the backwoods to the frontlines, Gramsci'sgeographical imagination receives here the thoroughgoingexploration it has always deserved. With deep and nuancedattention to Gramsci's spatial historicism, this collectionforegrounds the profoundly geographical nature of Gramsci'scritical consciousness and what it offers for thinking space,nature and politics relationally. As beautifully considered as itscover, this book is alive to the 'earthliness ofthought' and its political possibilities.'--CindiKatz, Earth and Environmental Sciences & EnvironmentalPsychology Programs, The City University of New York 'This well-crafted volume pushes the boundaries of currentdebates on Gramsci. Highlighting spatial and geographicalrelations, the diverse contributions pay detailed attention toGramsci's writings while opening an array of contemporaryissues including struggles in Brazil, Nepal, India and SouthAfrica; discussions of gender, class, race and ecology; andengagements with the theoretical work of Laclau & Mouffe,Lefebvre, Harvey, Hardt & Negri and Subaltern Studies. Thecontributors have set a hallmark in scholarship that will be veryinfluential across many fields from critical geography andinternational relations to political theory, development studiesand postcolonialism.'--Peter Ives, Department ofPolitics, University of Winnipeg, Canada